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• Authors: Barbara Tomalak

Title variants

EN

SMALL TOWNS IN THE MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article attempts to use the frequency of key-words in the analysis of the improvised anthology of poems which present small towns in the mountainous landscape. Not all of the fifteen poems which have been analysed are literary masterpieces, yet they adequately reflect the structure of small town descriptions. In order to reconstruct such a structure – which I call a semantic universal – one has to take into account cultural and topical conditions of such images, and in certain cases also their unconscious motivations which are possible when a motif which is a narrative elaboration on the archetypal symbol appears. Semantic universals are not features of a language of a particular author but belong to the subject itself. In order to identify the semantic structure presenting a „small town in the mountainous landscape” I take into account the town descriptions, towns’ history (both from synchronic and diachronic perspectives) as well as the landscape (the background) along with the folklore. The analysis which takes into account the above mentioned three elements of the semantic universal’s structure shows the regularities in the poems which describe small towns written by different authors. The most important observation is the connection between the semantic universal describing small town with a part of the religious model of the world, which is a characteristic feature of the thought inspired by the category of myth.

Keywords

EN

SMALL TOWNS; POLISH LITARATURE; MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2(19)
• Pages: 119-131

Dates

published

2012-10

Contributors

author

Barbara Tomalak

• Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej, ul. Ul. Willowa 2, 43-309 Bielsko-Biała

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